Rebel News Podcast - Best of 2019, election edition： The year of court-ordered journalism

00:00:00.000 Tonight, highlights from some of the Rebels' best election coverage in 2019.

00:00:21.800 It's January 1st, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:25.260 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:00:31.080 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:00:35.140 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:00:45.700 The election was just called in Alberta.

00:00:48.200 Wildrose Country heads to the polls April 16th, 2019.

00:00:51.720 It's going to be a tough, dirty battle.

00:00:54.040 The sleaziness of which I don't think we've ever really seen before in Alberta politics.

00:00:59.720 I am optimistic, but first, we need to stop Notley. 0.50

00:01:05.020 We need to stop her attacks on our education system.

00:01:08.080 We need to stop her name-calling and belittling of normal people.

00:01:12.980 We need to stop her attacks on our energy sector. 0.92

00:01:16.620 We need to stop her attacks and spend ways.

00:01:19.420 We need to stop her attacks on who and what Alberta is.

00:01:24.100 And we cannot trust the mainstream media to give an accurate record of the destruction that has transpired in Alberta under Rachel Notley's watch these past four years.

00:01:35.700 The thousands upon thousands of job losses, the bankruptcies, the billions and billions in investment dollars that have fled for greener pastures, the repossessions, the broken families, all the sucking up to Trudeau.

00:01:52.460 And I know that we can't trust them because the mainstream media didn't tell you the truth about Notley and her gang of destroyers back in 2015.

00:02:01.800 That's why I wrote my best-selling book, The Destroyers, documenting who and what the NDP are.

00:02:08.740 And in that book, I accurately predicted the destruction that was to come.

00:02:13.320 So, I'm excited to tell you that I've written another book.

00:02:17.760 It's called Stop Notley.

00:02:19.320 It's not a long book.

00:02:20.760 25,000 words.

00:02:22.340 It's an easy, sometimes fun, sometimes sad read.

00:02:27.140 But it's an important read, jam-packed with all the facts you need.

00:02:31.600 It's 25,000 words most Albertans have never heard before.

00:02:35.520 Because the mainstream media hasn't really covered Rachel Notley's true scandals.

00:02:41.980 And because I wanted this book in the hands of as many Albertans as possible before the election is done.

00:02:49.580 Because Albertans deserve the information the mainstream media is unwilling to give them.

00:02:55.560 We have priced the book very affordably.

00:02:58.280 Just $4.99 for the e-book version and just $9.99 for a paperback.

00:03:03.000 I think this will be my third best-seller after The Destroyers and The Case Against David Suzuki.

00:03:09.640 Why?

00:03:10.000 Because I think people are really hungry for the truth.

00:03:14.060 They want the other side of the story.

00:03:16.460 Now, to get your copy of the book today, it's easy.

00:03:19.240 Go to StopNotley.com.

00:03:21.140 But you can do something else to help us spread the word of this very important new book.

00:03:27.360 You know that at The Rebel, we are proudly independent.

00:03:30.660 I don't have a big corporate sponsor or a deep-pocketed backer.

00:03:35.500 So my marketing campaign for the book really relies on you and your help.

00:03:40.800 Like everything else we do around here, to be honest with you.

00:03:44.140 You can get a bright orange book lawn sign that is emblazoned with StopNotley.com on it

00:03:50.620 to let people know about the book and how they can get it.

00:03:54.320 Now, I'll show you what Ford said and I'll let you be the judge for yourself if she's 0.94

00:03:59.420 a white supremacist.

00:04:00.620 Now, for context, she was talking about terror attacks here.

00:04:04.720 She said,

00:04:06.340 When the perpetrator is an Islamist, the denunciations are intermingled with breathless assurances 0.99

00:04:12.860 that they do not represent Islam and that Islam is a religion of peace, etc.

00:04:19.180 Then she said,

00:04:20.620 When the terrorists are white supremacists, that kind of soul-searching or attempts to 0.90

00:04:26.280 understand the sources of their radicalization or their perverse moral reasoning is beyond 0.95

00:04:32.720 the pale.

00:04:33.360 She also said,

00:04:35.280 I'm somehow saddened by the demographic replacement of white peoples in their homelands. 1.00

00:04:41.500 It's clear that it will not be a peaceful transition.

00:04:45.940 Ford immediately resigned, saying that she didn't want to become a distraction in the campaign 1.00

00:04:52.000 and the NDP, they claimed their very first head of the campaign.

00:04:56.560 When Rachel Notley then was asked about Ford at her campaign kickoff,

00:05:01.360 this is what Notley said,

00:05:03.360 Like all Albertans, I was utterly shocked to hear of the comments that that candidate,

00:05:11.020 who was, of course, a star candidate for the UCP, made.

00:05:14.280 And let me just say this, I personally do not believe that Jason Kenney is racist, but I

00:05:20.660 do believe that the UCP as a party has a problem with racism.

00:05:24.900 You know, at least Hillary Clinton waited until her campaign was nearly over before she nuked 1.00

00:05:30.780 it and called Trump supporters and conservatives unwarranted names.

00:05:35.320 Notley did it on day one, bold strategy lady.

00:05:39.780 My Calgary-based colleague Kian Bexy and I have also been touring around the province a little bit,

00:05:44.860 delivering some of our beautiful orange stopnotley.com yard signs to promote the book.

00:05:51.020 We even paid Elections Alberta a little bit of a visit with our signs too and to cap off a very exciting seven days.

00:05:58.480 I have a big secret to unveil today.

00:06:01.940 Today is the day that my big, beautiful stopnotley billboard went up along the side of Highway 2 south of Leduc to promote my new book and the billboard is authorized by me.

00:06:13.940 And I'm so excited because the billboard behind me will get 1.3 million impressions every single month.

00:06:23.320 Kian and I have been having so much fun with this provincial election and promoting my new book that it really should be illegal.

00:06:32.860 And I am sure some busybody crybaby NDP activist tattletale would think it should be illegal too. 0.94

00:06:41.020 I predict within the next 24 to 36 hours, some book-burning censor will call my new acquaintances at the Elections Commissioner and at Elections Alberta to report my billboard,

00:06:53.700 my marketing campaign for my new book as some sort of breach of elections law.

00:06:59.540 Now, I just want to make a quick observation while we're talking about the mailers.

00:07:04.340 The endorsements from the firefighters and now the NDP signage.

00:07:09.880 They were once orange, but they're all weirdly blue these days.

00:07:14.260 Almost just like the United Conservative Party signs, just a little lighter shade of blue.

00:07:19.720 This is a pretty transparent admission by the NDP of just how toxic the NDP brand really is these days.

00:07:26.920 Even to their own supporters, looks like the best the NDP are hoping for is confusing people into voting for them

00:07:34.560 because people actually choosing to vote for them just seems so darn unlikely.

00:07:40.860 When I went up to Edmonton to cover the GSA rally, David Agin happened to be there.

00:07:45.380 GSAs were under his purview as Minister of Education.

00:07:48.860 And I wanted to ask him if he felt responsible for the damage that he has done to Alberta throughout his time as an NDP minister.

00:07:55.020 Minister Agin, do you feel responsible for making an entire generation...

00:08:00.500 He's not doing any interviews today.

00:08:01.620 Do you work for him?

00:08:02.780 So are you partly responsible for the 40% of Grade 9 students who failed math?

00:08:08.180 Minister Agin, can you tell me why you posed next to a bunch of children flagging the ISIS symbol?

00:08:13.160 I'm clear, well, maybe next step, next election, you could work on disability stuff.

00:08:17.720 Yes, yes, absolutely.

00:08:18.960 You betcha, absolutely.

00:08:20.840 Good luck with that.

00:08:22.280 Can you tell me why one of your staffers just tried to lift my camera off my shoulder?

00:08:25.920 Do you feel at all responsible for the 40% of Grade 9 math students who failed under your watch?

00:08:32.520 I told you he doesn't have a comment today.

00:08:34.620 He was just here for the students.

00:08:35.960 Did you enjoy the billboard on the side of Highway 2?

00:08:40.560 No.

00:08:40.920 Now, even though his thugs tried to keep me away from him by surrounding him and letting him get away, and even a staff member tried to make sure that I knew he wasn't going to be answering any questions, even though he was in a public space, and he would have gladly answered any questions from Global News or CBC.

00:09:00.420 Instead, he just ignored me and walked away.

00:09:03.180 Hi, Anne.

00:09:04.700 Hi.

00:09:05.400 Would you mind if I asked you a quick question?

00:09:07.340 Where are you?

00:09:08.140 My name is Kian.

00:09:08.840 I'm with the Rebel.

00:09:09.740 Oh, no, I'm not talking to the Rebel.

00:09:11.060 I'm wondering if you can tell me, do you regret running as a communist?

00:09:14.160 I'm not talking to the Rebel. 0.75

00:09:15.860 So you don't regret running as a communist?

00:09:17.660 I'm not talking to the Rebel. 0.75

00:09:19.040 Can you tell me why you ran as a communist?

00:09:20.980 I'm not talking to the Rebel. 0.75

00:09:22.420 Do you think that the residents of Calgary Varsity know that you're a communist?

00:09:25.860 I'm not talking to the Rebel. 0.75

00:09:27.260 Do you think it should be treasonous to run as a communist during the Cold War?

00:09:30.140 I think that you should be registered as a third party because you're not an actual media outlet, so I'm not talking to you.

00:09:36.340 So you don't want to tell the residents of Calgary Varsity why you ran as a communist candidate?

00:09:40.220 I'm not talking to the Rebel. 0.75

00:09:41.560 The Rebel is not a media organization.

00:09:43.840 I'm not allowed to ask you questions?

00:09:44.960 It's not on a public, not on a sidewalk when I've told you I'm not talking to you.

00:09:48.920 This is harassment.

00:09:49.960 It's not harassment.

00:09:50.740 You're a public figure and a communist who wants to represent Albertans.

00:09:55.620 This is harassment.

00:09:56.960 It's not harassment.

00:09:58.000 It's reasonable questions.

00:09:58.980 I just want to know why you're a communist.

00:10:02.020 No, I'm just going to call the police.

00:10:03.160 You're calling the police because I'm asking you why you're a communist.

00:10:05.640 Because you're harassing me on the sidewalk.

00:10:07.640 You can go to your car, you can leave.

00:10:12.660 Police, please.

00:10:13.380 We got a call from Anne McGrath.

00:10:16.900 Yeah.

00:10:17.160 Just one.

00:10:17.760 We got her side story.

00:10:18.700 Just trying to get your side story.

00:10:19.780 Yeah.

00:10:20.100 So I got in my car.

00:10:22.020 I came out into the sidewalk.

00:10:23.600 It's all on tape.

00:10:24.420 And I started asking her questions.

00:10:25.740 She was actually a communist candidate back in the 1900s during the Cold War.

00:10:29.640 And I thought that I could ask her some questions about her candidacy.

00:10:33.560 She's running in the election, as you know. 0.80

00:10:35.180 And then she said I was harassing her and called you. 0.98

00:10:37.200 It was an interaction that was less than five minutes, I would imagine.

00:10:41.420 I didn't follow her anywhere.

00:10:42.700 I didn't leave this place.

00:10:44.840 So is it a crime to ask politicians questions?

00:10:48.740 Oh, no.

00:10:48.940 We just said we come talk to you.

00:10:50.540 Yeah.

00:10:50.780 No, I appreciate you guys following up.

00:10:53.120 Based on even the information that she's told us there's nothing criminal, I mean, we've

00:10:59.000 only, we've got to talk to her, talk to you, right?

00:11:01.900 We're just trying to figure out what's going on here.

00:11:03.700 Yeah.

00:11:04.200 That's all.

00:11:05.280 I mean, obviously, if you are following her, right, it could potentially be construed as

00:11:12.060 harassment.

00:11:12.980 Potentially.

00:11:13.960 I'm just saying.

00:11:14.480 Yeah.

00:11:14.680 Right?

00:11:15.040 I'm not charging her or arresting her or anything like that today, right?

00:11:17.940 And I'm going to ask her a few questions.

00:11:19.600 I'm going to see if she regrets being a communist.

00:11:21.480 I'm going to see if she regrets calling the secret police on a reporter.

00:11:25.660 And I'm going to see what the everyday Calgary Varsity resident thinks about having a communist

00:11:30.380 candidate running for the NDP.

00:11:32.160 And you are the 1%. 0.67

00:11:34.160 You really are the 1%. 0.98

00:11:36.120 $200,000 in a year, Rachel Notley gave you.

00:11:40.220 Do you feel like you should redistribute that to the proletariat? 0.94

00:11:44.380 I want to acknowledge also something that's come up about my youth.

00:11:49.140 And I want to assure you that I am not a communist.

00:12:00.240 Four decades ago, when I was a young student, I was a member.

00:12:05.160 And I deeply regret that.

00:12:07.000 It was a mistake.

00:12:07.920 And I'm very sorry.

00:12:08.740 I will say that both Jason Kenney and the Communist Party agree and have publicly stated

00:12:15.060 that I am definitely not a communist.

00:12:18.340 Anne, do you think that the residents of Calgary Varsity accept your apology?

00:12:22.840 Anne?

00:12:24.920 Anne, do you think that the residents of Calgary Varsity accept your apology?

00:12:28.040 Well, we made some progress today.

00:12:30.540 I frankly can't believe it that Anne McGrath actually apologized for running as a communist

00:12:36.060 candidate.

00:12:37.080 I don't think that she would have been driven to apologize if it wasn't for the rebels' coverage

00:12:41.180 on her.

00:12:42.140 I don't also think that the residents of Calgary Varsity are ready to accept that apology.

00:12:47.280 It remains to be seen.

00:12:48.200 As you can see right behind me, the billboard is here.

00:12:50.680 It's in Calgary.

00:12:51.540 It was a quick turnaround, and we're just down the road from Anne McGrath's campaign

00:12:55.420 office.

00:12:55.820 You can see it right there.

00:12:57.600 We're going to drive this bad boy around Anne McGrath's constituency to make sure that 0.87

00:13:01.860 her constituents know that Anne McGrath in 1984 deemed it a good idea to run under the 0.97

00:13:07.180 ideology of Stalin, Marx, and Chairman Mao.

00:13:10.560 She's tried to censor us at every turn, but she can't censor this.

00:13:14.720 I'm very excited.

00:13:15.680 Let's hop into the truck and start driving.

00:13:21.540 I'm standing outside of a house in Calgary that has been vandalized because it has a stop

00:13:51.080 Notley's sign.

00:13:51.540 It's not just a house, actually.

00:13:52.520 It's a daycare for children run by a Filipino immigrant.

00:13:56.420 And as you can see behind me, it says racist on a fence behind me.

00:14:00.000 It says Nazi.

00:14:01.580 I couldn't believe it.

00:14:02.720 Someone just texted me a picture of it, actually, as a bus drove by.

00:14:05.940 I can't believe it.

00:14:07.040 It's Election Day in Alberta.

00:14:09.120 You'd think Rachel Notley would have better things to do, but she's still trying to get 1.00

00:14:13.320 her vengeance on the rebel.

00:14:15.700 Voters are going to throw Notley and her NDP destroyers out of office today.

00:14:19.240 But Notley's hand-picked election staff have just filed a flurry of new complaints against

00:14:25.540 us at the Rebel and against me personally.

00:14:27.960 I'm holding them in my hands right now.

00:14:30.540 It's so bizarre.

00:14:31.640 None of it makes sense.

00:14:32.460 It's also obviously illegal, but they're doing it anyways.

00:14:35.900 And here's the thing.

00:14:37.120 Unlike Notley, they're permanent bureaucrats.

00:14:40.340 So until Jason Kenney actually fires them, they will still be working away within the government

00:14:47.060 of Alberta even after today's election.

00:14:49.400 It's so bizarre.

00:14:50.160 Let me give you just one quick example.

00:14:51.740 I mean, they've been peppering us with crazy letters, but I'm going to show you just one,

00:14:55.580 okay?

00:14:56.980 Remember back in January, I showed you this letter from Notley's hand-picked elections

00:15:01.980 commissioner, a highly partisan activist named Lauren Gibson.

00:15:04.960 He put us at the Rebel on trial without even letting us know.

00:15:09.120 He convicted us in secret and told us about it afterwards in this letter.

00:15:13.720 But look at that first sentence there back in January.

00:15:17.240 I write in relation to an investigation undertaken by my office regarding a complaint from Elections

00:15:24.320 Alberta.

00:15:25.660 So Elections Alberta are the folks who run the elections.

00:15:29.120 And this guy, the elections commissioner, is the guy who just convicted us in a secret trial.

00:15:34.720 And they were talking about this billboard that we had put up last year.

00:15:38.560 Well, as you might remember, we asked for a copy of the complaint that we were convicted

00:15:44.140 for, and we still haven't received it.

00:15:46.220 So that was back in January, right?

00:15:48.240 Well, look what I got in the mail.

00:15:51.800 Now, it's dated March 18th, but obviously that was backdated since I didn't receive it

00:15:57.240 until just a few days ago.

00:15:58.680 About that billboard that we had up last year, that the elections commissioner said this complaint

00:16:07.160 was the basis for their secret trial in January, but I just got this.

00:16:11.140 I just got an L.

00:16:13.080 So how can you file a complaint after a trial is over?

00:16:19.520 When the trial was supposed to be based on this.

00:16:21.580 And why did the elections commissioner have showed you?

00:16:23.360 He said he had this complaint back then.

00:16:27.440 He was lying.

00:16:29.300 What's going on over there?

00:16:31.200 You don't convict someone and then file the complaint about them.

00:16:34.820 But what happened right before the letter was sent?

00:16:38.320 Oh, nothing, nothing.

00:16:40.880 Just Sheila Gunn-Reed's new book called Stop Notly was released on Amazon and became an instant

00:16:45.800 national bestseller.

00:16:47.180 Funny how the timing works.

00:16:49.100 Right after that is when this letter was sent.

00:16:53.360 Well, there's a lot of excitement.

00:16:56.560 What do you think they're referring to?

00:16:57.860 Is there a particular result that has come through?

00:17:01.600 It looks like, it sounds like Jason Kenney is appearing here.

00:17:05.900 We're not sure.

00:17:06.660 Yeah.

00:17:07.800 Everyone's focused on one point on the other side of the room.

00:17:10.320 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:17:11.580 I'm hearing in my ear.

00:17:13.180 I'm sorry.

00:17:13.700 I'm getting a message from our decision desk.

00:17:15.820 And yes, Jason Kenney is still the premier of Alberta and Rachel Notley is not.

00:17:24.520 David Menzies for the Rebel News here in Whitby, Ontario.

00:17:28.200 Well, folks, I'm outside the Ability Centre.

00:17:30.360 This is the venue for a press conference that's going to take place headed up by the Conservative

00:17:37.760 Party leader, Andrew Scheer.

00:17:39.680 I have no idea what he's going to announce as part of his party's platform.

00:17:44.080 Hopefully it's going to be a big announcement.

00:17:45.520 It is exactly three weeks before the federal election on October 21st.

00:17:52.180 And hey, let's put it this way.

00:17:55.060 If the polls are correct, this is a neck and neck horse race.

00:17:59.300 Clearly, Andrew Scheer has to break through.

00:18:01.800 He has to get some good vibrations going.

00:18:04.540 So I'm going to go into the press conference and find out what the leader has to say today.

00:18:09.920 This is super impressionable.

00:18:12.440 As this is not a public event and you're not accredited media, so we're going to ask you to leave, please.

00:18:17.780 How do you get to be accredited media?

00:18:19.660 You need to be accredited by the campaign.

00:18:21.480 You're not accredited media, so we're going to ask you to leave, please.

00:18:23.460 And why is that?

00:18:24.440 You're not accredited media.

00:18:25.600 This is a private event.

00:18:26.380 We are going to ask you to leave, please.

00:18:27.260 Well, you keep saying that, but why am I not accredited media?

00:18:29.120 I'm not doing an interview right here right now.

00:18:30.380 You can get in touch with our press office.

00:18:31.240 Well, that's what I was invited for.

00:18:32.780 You were actually not invited.

00:18:34.140 You are not accredited media.

00:18:35.200 We're going to ask you to leave.

00:18:36.140 You can get in touch with the press office and learn more about our...

00:18:38.780 Is this the Andrew Scheer event or the Justin Trudeau event?

00:18:42.300 Mr. Menzies, I'm going to ask you to leave, please.

00:18:44.080 You're not accredited.

00:18:44.860 What is he announcing that you don't want?

00:18:47.100 Who are you, by the way?

00:18:49.100 I'm with the campaign.

00:18:50.160 You're welcome to step outside here.

00:18:51.340 I'll stay here.

00:18:53.540 I'm with the RCMP.

00:18:55.100 It's a private event.

00:18:55.700 Please walk.

00:18:56.380 Sir, please walk.

00:18:57.220 It's a private event.

00:18:58.280 Don't shove me in, all right?

00:18:59.540 I'm not shoving you.

00:19:00.320 I'm asking you to leave.

00:19:01.020 I'm asking you how you get accredited, okay?

00:19:03.700 Well, that's the same problem I have.

00:19:05.500 It was a public event, and they're saying no.

00:19:07.740 Oh, they won't allow you in here, sir?

00:19:10.440 And why is that?

00:19:12.480 Well, because I want to ask him questions from Andrew Scheer,

00:19:16.080 and they keep on saying, no, you can't come.

00:19:19.380 Completely wrong.

00:19:20.700 Completely wrong, and this is a public event.

00:19:23.080 It should be a public event.

00:19:24.820 I see on the TV all the time people saying they can set up and ask questions. 0.98

00:19:29.720 And here they're saying I can't even enter the damn thing. 0.95

00:19:32.240 Sir, sir, sir. 0.97

00:19:35.260 Let's just cooperate.

00:19:36.460 I thought you were calling the police.

00:19:39.360 We are calling the police.

00:19:40.620 We'll meet them on time.

00:19:41.700 Okay?

00:19:42.220 Okay?

00:19:42.480 Yeah, all right then.

00:19:43.140 You were asked nicely to leave.

00:19:44.140 So this is free speech in Canada right now.

00:19:46.360 But you're not welcome to describe it.

00:19:47.760 How about my brothers in the media?

00:19:49.320 Are you going to stand out for this?

00:19:50.920 Or is there going to be some solidarity?

00:19:52.920 He asked him three times, so he doesn't want him or not.

00:19:56.300 Is this?

00:19:56.840 I didn't know this was a Trudeau precedent.

00:19:58.840 I thought it was a conservative precedent.

00:20:00.440 Okay.

00:20:00.880 Is there anyone going to be in solidarity with me?

00:20:03.720 Any of you?

00:20:04.740 When I have the room police to come in.

00:20:06.160 No?

00:20:06.700 Just wait for the room police to come in.

00:20:09.220 Let's call it.

00:20:10.220 All right.

00:20:10.560 You know, I hope whatever Mr. Scheer's announcement is, it isn't going to get eclipsed by the sidebar

00:20:17.420 story of all the media covering this physical removal of a journalist.

00:20:22.920 I really hope so.

00:20:26.180 Hi.

00:20:26.660 Hi there.

00:20:27.040 Can we have a chat?

00:20:28.060 Pardon me?

00:20:28.560 Can I talk to you, please?

00:20:29.600 Absolutely.

00:20:30.120 Right here, sir.

00:20:30.680 But I want to remain here because I'm going to try to ask Mr. Scheer directly why, you know,

00:20:35.080 the muscle is strong-arming us out of a press event.

00:20:39.220 Okay.

00:20:39.860 Can we maybe just have a little...

00:20:41.940 I'll stay right here because I don't want to miss him.

00:20:44.040 So, this is a private event.

00:20:46.920 Okay.

00:20:47.300 It's been posted here at the Ability Center.

00:20:49.360 Okay.

00:20:50.160 And the building is ours and so if you're not a member, I have to respectfully ask.

00:20:57.180 But I am a member of the media, sir.

00:20:58.600 No, sorry.

00:20:59.080 Member of the Ability Center.

00:21:00.600 Oh, okay.

00:21:01.020 Well, I see dozens of media members right behind the glass.

00:21:05.200 Yes, they are there by invitation.

00:21:06.560 It's their event.

00:21:07.440 They get to choose who is present there.

00:21:10.360 This is the Ability Center and for security reasons, I have to ask the respect for it.

00:21:14.240 Security reasons?

00:21:15.180 Yes.

00:21:15.440 We don't have a member.

00:21:15.700 I am a security threat.

00:21:16.980 You are not a security threat I'm aware of.

00:21:19.360 Okay.

00:21:19.920 We have strict protocols that this premises is for members only or invited guests when we

00:21:28.180 host an event.

00:21:28.800 So, we're not even hosting, actually.

00:21:31.300 We are renting the space.

00:21:32.500 Well, there's only one option.

00:21:34.680 There are two options.

00:21:35.500 Either you leave by yourself or we'll have to call the police staff to escort you out.

00:21:40.480 Well, if you feel you want to do that, sir, you know, somehow I'm a criminal, somehow

00:21:45.660 I'm a security threat that you would call the real police to throw me out.

00:21:49.860 I mean, why is that?

00:21:50.600 And I'm sorry, who are you in the office?

00:21:52.240 I'm the security lead for the Conservatives.

00:21:53.860 Okay, then.

00:21:54.580 And you're not welcome to the event here.

00:21:56.860 Can I ask you why, sir?

00:21:57.880 No, I cannot indulge or get into anything further than what I just told you.

00:22:02.900 It's not welcome to the event.

00:22:03.840 Do you know what the reason is?

00:22:05.000 I have no idea.

00:22:05.860 Okay, then.

00:22:06.900 So, basically, I...

00:22:08.940 Sir, you have to leave from this premises and now you're going to have to leave.

00:22:12.840 Well, you know, it's...

00:22:13.800 Sir.

00:22:15.760 Okay.

00:22:16.580 Sir.

00:22:17.260 Sir.

00:22:18.460 So, I had requested that you leave.

00:22:22.720 You brought me right to the room, sir.

00:22:24.500 I did.

00:22:25.240 Yes.

00:22:25.560 Because I thought you were an invited guest.

00:22:27.000 Okay.

00:22:27.780 So...

00:22:28.000 Well, I am a member of the media.

00:22:29.440 I understand.

00:22:30.440 I have to, again, please respectfully ask that you leave.

00:22:33.000 Because if you don't, these people will have to escort you from our building.

00:22:36.340 You know, I don't know if I'm in Canada right now or North Korea.

00:22:40.000 Okay.

00:22:40.180 You know, and it's no offense to you officers here, but, I mean, you have.

00:22:44.100 I agree.

00:22:44.800 But you won't answer my question.

00:22:47.120 You leave me no choice.

00:22:48.480 You know, my grandfather fought five years in the Second World War to preserve our freedoms,

00:22:52.660 ma'am.

00:22:52.700 Can you just come with us?

00:22:53.740 All right, then.

00:22:54.320 If I don't, you're going to arrest me?

00:22:55.740 Is that how it works?

00:22:55.940 I can charge you.

00:22:57.280 All right, then.

00:22:58.360 Well, that sure didn't go as planned.

00:23:00.360 In fact, I'm in a state of shock, folks.

00:23:03.040 Andrew Scheer and his conservative lackeys actually called the police on me and had me

00:23:10.020 removed from a public venue.

00:23:13.380 As you can see in the back, there is the Team Scheer big blue bus.

00:23:18.720 I'm not allowed to even go in the parking lot.

00:23:20.660 I'll be charged with trespass.

00:23:22.120 That's what the police had told me.

00:23:23.960 So I'm on a public sidewalk about 120 meters away from the bus.

00:23:28.560 I'm going to see if I can shout out some questions to Andrew Scheer, see if he'll have

00:23:33.600 the intestinal fortitude to answer them.

00:23:36.280 Some of the questions I think should be, when did he start taking censorship lessons from

00:23:42.740 Justin Trudeau?

00:23:44.340 And why is it that the likes of the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, the CBC, the so-called

00:23:49.920 mean girls of the media party, they're welcome to these events with a red carpet. 1.00

00:23:54.780 But a conservative leading journalist, has the police frog march him out?

00:24:00.640 And does he indeed believe in freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of expression?

00:24:06.980 He says he does.

00:24:08.580 But I would say that his actions indicate otherwise.

00:24:12.340 In any event, I'm going to attempt to ask those questions to Mr. Scheer before he leaves

00:24:17.440 Whitby.

00:24:18.440 And assuming I don't get arrested, let's see what happens.

00:24:21.980 I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I am, I'm just trying to get a, an answer.

00:24:28.580 Excuse me.

00:24:29.980 Excuse me.

00:24:31.260 I know I'm not part of Jerry Diaz's uniform union, but it'd be nice if you gentlemen,

00:24:37.540 lady would be, give some solidarity. 0.99

00:24:40.980 Can I not talk to these members of the press?

00:24:44.260 Do we have freedom of press here?

00:24:46.420 Do we or not?

00:24:47.080 So, uh, these are your tax dollars, uh, hard at work folks.

00:24:51.840 Um, the RCMP being used to, um, shut down, uh, the practice of journalism, at least to

00:24:59.440 those journalists, uh, who have the temerity to ask impolite questions.

00:25:03.820 So I guess the, uh, thought police, if you will, has been called in.

00:25:08.440 Again, I'm not, I'm not going to criticize the, uh, Durham regional police here.

00:25:13.280 They're just acting on, um, I presume 9-1-1 calls from the conservative party.

00:25:20.120 So, um, they're mulling it over, I guess, right now to find out, um, what they're going

00:25:25.420 to charge me with, I overheard, uh, obstruction of justice.

00:25:30.600 Gee, that, that, that kind of sounds SNC-Lavalin-like, doesn't it, folks?

00:25:36.540 And, um, I'll continue, uh, dispatching here at the Ability Center in Whitby, where I am

00:25:43.860 only trying to do my job, which is practicing journalism.

00:25:48.300 Honors graduate in broadcasting.

00:25:50.240 Thank you.

00:25:50.480 Oh, wow.

00:25:50.760 Yeah.

00:25:51.240 Look it up.

00:25:51.700 You went to J school.

00:25:52.240 Look it up.

00:25:52.960 It wasn't J school.

00:25:53.700 Look it up. 1.00

00:25:54.080 You're a disgrace. 1.00

00:25:58.160 Ask your mother what she thinks of you. 1.00

00:25:59.820 Ask my mother what she thinks of me.

00:26:00.960 My mother loves me.

00:26:02.460 For now. 1.00

00:26:03.660 You're a disgrace. 1.00

00:26:05.340 Don't worry about it. 1.00

00:26:06.100 And don't you dare talk about my mother. 1.00

00:26:07.920 You're pathetic. 1.00

00:26:08.500 It worked. 1.00

00:26:09.120 Thank you. 1.00

00:26:09.540 You're pathetic. 1.00

00:26:10.240 I get paid for what I do. 1.00

00:26:11.500 So do I. 1.00

00:26:12.060 And you're pathetic. 1.00

00:26:12.820 You're a disgrace. 1.00

00:26:13.900 Mike is his name? 1.00

00:26:14.720 Yeah, Mike Arcelides.

00:26:16.580 Mike Arcelides, CTV News, Ottawa.

00:26:19.420 Let's go to the West Coast.

00:26:20.300 Ian Bexley with Rebel News here.

00:26:28.560 You can see CTV behind me. 0.99

00:26:30.380 Pathetic disgrace that they are. 0.99

00:26:32.100 We were just at a presser with Catherine McKenna. 1.00

00:26:35.180 You have no credibility.

00:26:36.140 Thank you.

00:26:36.520 Sorry.

00:26:37.080 You want to interrupt my newscast?

00:26:38.820 This isn't news.

00:26:39.520 This isn't news.

00:26:40.100 You're not news.

00:26:40.800 You are fake news.

00:26:41.840 Thank you.

00:26:42.180 Oh, really?

00:26:42.600 And what are you?

00:26:43.460 You're asked three very sympathetic questions to the government today.

00:26:46.120 Mike, what is your message to those like this gentleman here and people who will never

00:26:50.220 listen to what you're saying today?

00:26:52.240 When you hear the President of the United States say what he said recently about why

00:26:55.720 are they going after plastic straws? 0.78

00:26:57.660 How difficult is it to combat the mudding of the waters when you have people advocating?

00:27:01.700 When I speak to conservative supporters, or at least those who claim to be, they say

00:27:06.080 the carbon tax has to go.

00:27:07.760 When you talk to constituents, what are they saying about the carbon tax?

00:27:10.560 Do they understand what the carbon tax is and who initially came up with it?

00:27:14.760 So residents of Ottawa Centre are supportive of our action on climate change, including

00:27:19.220 a price on pollution.

00:27:20.880 And to be clear, we put a price on pollution and we're giving the money back to people.

00:27:25.660 My CTV colleague here brought up the President.

00:27:28.720 I know that you have problems with us.

00:27:31.120 He brought up the President.

00:27:32.600 He said something about plastic straws.

00:27:35.100 I'll ask a tough question.

00:27:36.040 The President said that he was surprised that Justin Trudeau...

00:27:39.800 Did you just say I'm an 18-year-old?

00:27:41.040 Keep going.

00:27:52.660 Have you ever asked a critical question of a politician in your life?

00:27:55.740 You're barking up the wrong tree, buddy.

00:27:56.100 Have you ever asked a critical question?

00:27:57.400 You're barking up the wrong tree, thank you. 0.50

00:27:58.460 I just want to know because the questions you asked were pretty lapdog style.

00:28:02.100 Next time when you show up to an event like this, be a professional.

00:28:04.260 Pretty lapdog style questions.

00:28:05.800 You wouldn't even know what a professional is.

00:28:06.680 You asked three questions that were both very...

00:28:09.100 No, no, you wouldn't even know what a professional is.

00:28:10.300 So, what's your name?

00:28:11.000 Got you.

00:28:11.380 My name's Kian.

00:28:12.260 What's your name?

00:28:12.620 Kian, last name?

00:28:13.080 What?

00:28:13.240 What's your name?

00:28:13.660 You watch me on TV.

00:28:14.620 I really have no idea who you are. 1.00

00:28:17.140 You're pathetic. 1.00

00:28:18.080 And you're a disgrace. 1.00

00:28:19.660 University of Calgary. 1.00

00:28:20.920 Wow.

00:28:21.400 Ooh.

00:28:22.080 Keep them coming.

00:28:24.100 Is that so wide?

00:28:26.640 You're antagonizing.

00:28:27.660 Thank you.

00:28:29.020 He called me an 18-year-old.

00:28:30.780 He called me fake news.

00:28:31.560 He said, my mother doesn't like me.

00:28:33.700 That's what CTV is.

00:28:35.260 This Monday is the only English language debate that Justin Trudeau will participate in this election.

00:28:41.200 But his hand-picked debate commission has banned our Rebel News reporters and other conservative media from even attending the debate.

00:28:49.860 Our journalists, Kian Bexty and David Menzies, each applied.

00:28:53.740 I personally wrote to the gatekeepers myself weeks ago.

00:28:57.640 But only today, right before the weekend, and the debate itself is on Monday, did they have the Kurdish seat even right back.

00:29:04.400 And they flatly refused us permission.

00:29:06.360 Permission?

00:29:07.360 Permission?

00:29:07.620 It's a free country.

00:29:08.920 That's all the permission we need.

00:29:10.780 We don't need special permission to cover the only debate the Prime Minister deigns to participate in in English.

00:29:16.700 It's our right.

00:29:17.900 Understand what I mean here.

00:29:18.940 We're not applying to be one of the debate moderators who were selected by Trudeau's hand-picked debate commission precisely because of their history of being soft on Trudeau.

00:29:29.300 They're all left-leaning advocates, including the CBC's Rosemary Barton, seen here taking a selfie with Trudeau and Althea Raj, seen here taking a selfie with Trudeau and Chantali Baer, who was the Trudeau scholar at the Trudeau Foundation.

00:29:46.600 And now all these Trudeau advocates are going to grill Trudeau.

00:29:50.080 Yeah, sure.

00:29:50.860 Now, we know we'd never be allowed to actually ask Trudeau a question in the debate.

00:29:55.120 We might ask something tough, but this ban means we won't even be allowed in the building at all.

00:30:00.800 We won't even be allowed in the big holding room with hundreds of other reporters.

00:30:05.000 We're banned.

00:30:06.720 Not by a political party, by the government, the government itself.

00:30:11.240 That's illegal.

00:30:13.260 And the excuse they gave?

00:30:15.060 Well, you can see the one-line explanation offered by the government press gallery.

00:30:19.000 It is our view that your organization is actively involved in advocacy.

00:30:25.120 Well, hang on, what does that mean?

00:30:27.140 That we have a point of view, but so do all the journalists on that panel.

00:30:31.400 Kean and David do real reporting every day.

00:30:33.800 And like I've told you before, these same gatekeepers personally approved journalists from Xinhua, the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda organ.

00:30:43.000 They'll let anyone in unless you're a conservative.

00:30:45.940 And the arrogance of them telling us we're advocates, they're Unifor journalists and members of other journalism unions who have literally set up partisan campaign groups, super PACs, registered with election candidate to campaign in support of Justin Trudeau.

00:31:03.380 And they haven't done this just to us.

00:31:05.220 They've done this to Andrew Lawton, also the young journalist from True North.

00:31:09.660 They're keeping out anyone who leans conservative.

00:31:12.340 So, both True North and Rebel News have decided to seek an emergency court injunction on Monday morning to stop Trudeau's hand-picked debates commission from keeping us out of the building.

00:31:23.180 We're going to court.

00:31:24.480 I spoke at length with our lawyers today.

00:31:26.620 They're going to work all weekend to get ready.

00:31:29.360 The emergency application is on Monday in federal court in Toronto.

00:31:33.640 You're welcome to attend.

00:31:34.500 I'll be there personally, as will more of our team.

00:31:37.480 I'd appreciate the moral support, but I actually need your help.

00:31:40.460 In order to get this law firm to go on an emergency basis to work all weekend, I had to send them a retainer of $10,000.

00:31:47.840 I know that sounds high, but it's two lawyers and their staff all weekend, and it's a big application on Monday.

00:31:54.600 That's how much these things cost.

00:31:57.040 Remember, the government has unlimited lawyers on their side, paid for by your tax dollars.

00:32:01.840 This really is David versus Goliath.

00:32:05.200 Please go to LetUsReport.com.

00:32:07.400 Help me raise the $10,000.

00:32:09.220 This is about freedom of the press.

00:32:11.240 It's about making the election campaign more fair, more democratic, more meaningful.

00:32:16.380 And it's about Justin Trudeau's bizarre war on journalists that he seems to be getting away with during this campaign,

00:32:23.960 and that no one else is stopping him.

00:32:25.840 Well, we're going to stop him on Monday.

00:32:27.920 Please visit LetUsReport.com.

00:32:31.420 Thanks.

00:32:31.860 Mr. Trudeau, since your multiple use of blackface became an international scandal,

00:32:36.960 Canada's international reputation has been irreparably harmed.

00:32:41.620 Have you reached out to any African leaders or any leaders from the Middle East to apologize for your conduct?

00:32:46.700 Canada will continue to engage in a positive, constructive way around the world,

00:32:51.800 standing up for human rights, engaging with leaders right around the world,

00:32:56.560 because we know that promoting our values and prosperity for everyone around the world

00:33:02.720 is good for Canadians and creates better opportunities for everyone.

00:33:06.660 So that didn't answer the question at all.

00:33:08.420 Have you spoken to any African leaders or leaders from the Middle East to apologize for your personal conduct?

00:33:14.200 Ikean RNN, have you, your campaign, or any other agents secured non-disclosure agreements from anyone

00:33:20.200 about inappropriate sexual personal conduct?

00:33:23.860 No.

00:33:24.780 Follow-up, the 2001 yearbook from West Point Grey Academy says that you and convicted sex offender

00:33:30.560 Christopher Ingvoldson made a young student's, quote,

00:33:33.700 life at WPGA a lot more interesting slash amusing, end quote.

00:33:37.920 How did you two keep her amused? 1.00

00:33:40.380 We were teachers.

00:33:41.500 David Menzies, Rebel News.

00:33:44.540 Mr. Prime Minister, you left West Point Grey Academy in the middle of a term, which is highly unusual.

00:33:50.900 It was a law firm that made this announcement, which is also highly unusual.

00:33:56.980 Sir, can you tell us the real reason why you left so abruptly?

00:34:01.240 And did it involve any kind of sexual misconduct at the school?

00:34:05.860 I wrote three pages on that in my autobiography, and it involved absolutely nothing of the sort of the rumors that you're trying to spread.

00:34:15.580 Even so, Mr. Prime Minister, a follow-up question.

00:34:17.880 Why did so many teenage girls write so passionately about you in the yearbook?

00:34:24.900 Was there any connection to having a relationship with these girls or their mothers?

00:34:29.400 I was a good teacher.

00:34:34.160 Mr. Scheer, only 6% of Canadians indicate they want to see immigration increased.

00:34:40.520 Yet you are on board with the Trudeau Liberals plan to increase immigration to 350,000 migrants per year.

00:34:48.440 Why is that?

00:34:49.160 I will ensure that our targets respond directly to the needs of our economy and our population.

00:34:55.400 Sir, I'm curious how you came to that number of 350,000.

00:34:59.220 Many of these migrants are, of course, family reunification cases.

00:35:04.380 They're not going to contribute to the economy.

00:35:06.100 They're, in fact, going to take away from it.

00:35:08.360 I'm just wondering, again, how did you come to this number?

00:35:10.900 And are you just afraid to dispute Justin Trudeau when it comes to immigration numbers?

00:35:17.360 Kian Bexsey, Rebel Media.

00:35:19.160 Justin Trudeau's platform says that he will ban certain speech on the Internet,

00:35:23.760 especially speech that is deemed, quote, hurtful.

00:35:26.320 I'm wondering why you haven't been more vocal about any opposition to that,

00:35:29.980 if you are opposed to that, given your primary campaign.

00:35:33.820 You talk so much about free speech on university campuses.

00:35:36.340 Why doesn't that apply to the digital world?

00:35:43.520 Hi.

00:35:43.960 Elizabeth May told me earlier today, and I think she spoke in the other debate recently,

00:35:49.340 that she wants the Alberta oil sands offline in a decade.

00:35:53.260 What's the date that you want the Alberta oil sands offline?

00:35:56.100 Sir, what's your name?

00:35:56.920 My name's Kian.

00:35:57.480 I'm with RNN.

00:35:58.520 You're with who?

00:35:59.120 RNN.

00:35:59.820 I'm going to pass on the question, my friend.

00:36:01.060 Okay, so do I get the follow-up then?

00:36:03.360 Or are you just going to pass on the question for...

00:36:05.160 Yeah, I'm not going to answer it yet.

00:36:06.180 Because it's a hard one or...

00:36:06.920 I'm just not going to answer your question.

00:36:08.080 Okay, so the follow-up, I guess, would be,

00:36:10.260 how do you have the moral authority to take the Alberta oil sands offline,

00:36:14.680 given Alberta most just recently rejected your party

00:36:17.820 in the largest democratic mandate that the province has ever seen?

00:36:21.340 I'm not going to answer your question, but thanks.

00:36:22.480 It's a hard one, Hank.

00:36:23.280 Thanks, man.

00:36:27.980 Ms. May, David Menzies with Rebel News.

00:36:30.500 Ms. May, in 2015, you stated that convicted terrorist Omar Khadar

00:36:35.860 had more class than the entire effing conservative cabinet

00:36:39.940 under Stephen Harper.

00:36:41.440 Do you still believe in 2019 that this convicted terrorist

00:36:44.880 has more class than the entire conservative party under Andrew Scheer?

00:36:49.280 Have you ever been to a press gallery dinner? 0.93

00:36:51.800 Do you understand the concept of it being ridiculous with lots of humor?

00:36:56.160 I'm sorry, that's not a real question.

00:36:58.080 Oh, sorry.

00:36:58.560 If this was an attempt at humor, a supplemental question,

00:37:01.120 do you think that the widow... 1.00

00:37:03.160 Do you think people give serious speeches?

00:37:05.140 ...and the fatherless children of Christopher Speer, his murder victim,

00:37:08.640 do you think they found that funny, Ms. May?

00:37:11.320 Hi, Ms. May, Kian Bexte, Rebel Media.

00:37:13.900 My question revolves around what you told me earlier today.

00:37:16.900 You said you want to take the Alberta oil sands offline within a decade.

00:37:21.200 I'm wondering how you have the moral authority to do that

00:37:24.380 when your party isn't polling competitively in any riding in Alberta whatsoever.

00:37:29.100 First of all, it's not news.

00:37:31.400 If you'd paid any attention to our platform since May, you would have known that.

00:37:35.820 Our plan is a phasing out of dependence on fossil fuels

00:37:39.560 with a particular focus on a just transition for workers.

00:37:44.620 We're very concerned about workers in the fossil fuel sector.

00:37:49.120 And the question of what we do next, framed as moral authority,

00:37:52.560 has something to do with whether our generation has the moral authority

00:37:55.820 to end human civilization within a lifetime of our children.

00:37:59.040 Do you think that the Alberta oil sands are going to end civilization?

00:38:02.420 I don't think you understand the science.

00:38:05.040 I do. I have a Bachelor of Science in Energy Sciences and Energy Economics.

00:38:08.120 I understand quite well.

00:38:09.180 I don't want to laugh.

00:38:13.860 Hi, Kian Bexte, Rebel News, right here.

00:38:17.340 My question revolves around journalism in Canada.

00:38:21.060 Three journalists came to this debate tonight,

00:38:23.400 but they weren't going to be let in, myself included.

00:38:26.660 We had to apply for an emergency court injunction

00:38:28.880 to be allowed to cover the one English debate

00:38:31.800 that our prime minister took part in.

00:38:34.000 What does that say about the state of journalism in Canada

00:38:36.560 and the contempt that the prime minister currently has for journalists?

00:38:40.460 It's a shame, you know.

00:38:42.300 We're a free democracy.

00:38:44.240 We believe in freedom.

00:38:45.500 Ike and Bexte, Rebel News.

00:38:47.060 My question is about the $600 million media bailout.

00:38:51.420 But I'm wondering if you think, has that bailout compromised the coverage of this election?

00:38:57.240 First of all, as you know, we won't give that money to traditional media.

00:39:03.460 I think it is not the role of the government to bail out media.

00:39:06.760 I think the media must be independent from the government,

00:39:09.260 not dependent from the government.

00:39:10.960 And we don't know if that will have an impact.

00:39:14.440 Maybe I'll let Canadians decide on that.

00:39:17.160 But for us, we want to be sure that our media will be independent.

00:39:20.880 My follow-up on a separate topic is in regards to national defence.

00:39:24.660 None of the debates that, the several debates that the prime minister has participated in,

00:39:29.580 they haven't really covered national defence.

00:39:31.520 Are you bothered by that?

00:39:33.300 David Menzies, Rebel News.

00:39:34.560 Mr. Bernier, Mr. Scheer did a press conference a few days ago

00:39:39.340 at the infamous Roxham Road crossing into Canada.

00:39:41.860 He spoke about things like hiring extra border guards,

00:39:45.760 tightening the safe third country agreement with the U.S.

00:39:49.200 And I think a lot of people who want more border security would applaud those.

00:39:53.600 However, he didn't go as far as suggesting to build a wall or a fence.

00:39:58.500 I'm curious, what is your position in that regard,

00:40:02.640 in terms of tightening up border security via a physical impediment

00:40:06.860 to these illegal immigrants coming into Canada?

00:40:09.400 First of all, as you know, 45,000 of them crossed our border for the last two years.

00:40:15.240 We must fix that.

00:40:16.300 And Mr. Bernier, a second question on a different subject.

00:40:19.260 As you know, the only reason why I am here, my colleague Kian Bexsey is here,

00:40:23.140 my friend Andrew Lawton with True North is here,

00:40:25.700 is due to a federal court order that we got at the 11th hour on Monday.

00:40:30.580 You, sir, were the only federal leader to tweet out your congratulations to that.

00:40:34.880 I am curious, why do you think the other federal leaders didn't have any comment to make

00:40:41.700 about really a groundbreaking judgment when it comes to freedom of the press?

00:40:47.260 It's very sad that they are not fighting for freedom of the press.

00:40:52.160 And so, you know, you're a journalist.

00:40:54.580 Maybe I like your question.

00:40:56.360 Maybe I won't like your question.

00:40:57.660 But your role is to ask tough questions.

Rebel News Podcast - January 02, 2020

Best of 2019, election edition： The year of court-ordered journalism

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